RE: Samba - microsoft-ds connection?

2005-01-23 Thread Ted Mittelstaedt
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: At 08:08 PM 1/22/2005, stheg olloydson wrote: It MS's Directory Service, what is usually called SMB. As long as it's between systems on your network, it's nothing to worry about. Ahah, then maybe there is something to worry about. I'm quite sure my system's been

Re: Samba - microsoft-ds connection?

2005-01-22 Thread Oliver Leitner
A good short description of the ms-ds protocol is given here: http://www.eventid.net/displayprot.asp?lic=19fdcf8protocol=*keyword=2000 Greetings Oliver Leitner Technical Staff http://www.shells.at On Sunday 23 January 2005 01:30, Marty Landman wrote: Hi, Sorry if the subject's a bit cryptic.

Re: Samba - microsoft-ds connection?

2005-01-22 Thread stheg olloydson
it was said: What is microsoft-ds? Couldn't find anything about it in MS' knowledgebase. Marty Hello, It MS's Directory Service, what is usually called SMB. As long as it's between systems on your network, it's nothing to worry about. HTH, stheg

Re: Samba - microsoft-ds connection?

2005-01-22 Thread Marty Landman
At 08:08 PM 1/22/2005, stheg olloydson wrote: It MS's Directory Service, what is usually called SMB. As long as it's between systems on your network, it's nothing to worry about. Ahah, then maybe there is something to worry about. I'm quite sure my system's been hijacked in the recent past. And

Re: Samba - microsoft-ds connection?

2005-01-22 Thread stheg olloydson
it was said: snip Ahah, then maybe there is something to worry about. snip Marty Hello, Yes, this is a well-known attack vector in the Windows world. Regardless of a gateway's OS, one should be running as good as possible firewall checking all incoming and outgoing packets. Windows machines